"Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing."

I posted birthday greetings elsewhere, but just in case you missed it, happy birthday! My mother's birthday was yesterday, my aunt's the day before, and a good friend's was the 13th. So mid-October seems to be a good time to be born!